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Top 13 Petrochemical producers based in South Africa
RevenueBase identified 40 petrochemical producers headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 24,322 professional contacts across them, including 7,472 with verified work emails. Cape Town is the largest hub.
This list covers petrochemical producers headquartered in South Africa, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 17, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 13 largest petrochemical producers based in South Africa
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 944 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SAPREF is a joint venture between Shell SA Refining and BP Southern Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 245 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Safripol is a leading polymer producer and marketer, with operations predominantly in South Africa, and serving markets locally, in Africa and globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 244 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Manufacturer and supplier of a complete range of unsaturated polyester resins, coating resins, dispersions, epoxy vinyl esters, gelcoats, pigment pastes accessories and equipment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1984, Refinex (Pty) Ltd is a privately owned company which has evolved from producing quality products for the pet food, feed and industrial markets to providing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CGH South Africa (Pty) Ltd is a member of the CGH Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sun Ace, a global leader in the development and production of PVC Stabilisers and Metal Soaps J Sun Ace, a leading manufacturer of Flotation Reagents, NASH, Xanthates, Collectors…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ColVic is a complete end-to-end solution provider for safe storage and distribution of fuels to the retail & commercial petrochemical industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Wasaa Gasses Pty Ltd is an Independent South African Petroleum and Petrochemical company, serving the various refining and downstream players in South Africa and SADC, and with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Stacor supply clients with virgin products such as Petroleum Jelly, White Oils, Aromatic Oils, Process Oils, Slack Waxes, Automotive and Industrial Lubricants, Specific Specialty…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With over 65 years of experience in the petrochemical industry - MOOV Fuel and Lubricants aims to meet Africa’s energy needs through safe and reliable service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Venco is a leading wholesale petroleum company in South Africa, trading nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Resin SA (Pty) Ltd is a South African based composite company operating in three major business sectors – Polyester Resins, Chemical Solvents and Speciality Plastic Polymers –…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Proudly South African Company with its core focus on importing and exporting of the GLOBAL STANDARD polymers/POLY-OLEFINS through-out South Africa and sub Saharan Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: petrochemical producers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names petrochemical producers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of petrochemical producers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name petrochemical producers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Petrochemical producers based in South Africa at a glance
As of Sep 17, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 40 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among petrochemical producers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “petrochemical producers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names petrochemical producers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among petrochemical producers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 7,472 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 17, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names petrochemical producers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many petrochemical producers are there based in South Africa?
RevenueBase identified 40 petrochemical producers headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Sapref, headquartered in Natal, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most petrochemical producers?
Cape Town leads with 7 headquartered companies, followed by Durban (5) and Johannesburg (5).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 7,472 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 40 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 17, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.